This book presents findings of a cross-section of teachers, elementary through college, who have developed ways to enable students to make connections between their lives and the literature they read. The 28 articles are grouped into: (1) a section on the collaborating and creating connection with literature; and (2) a section on the reading and writing connection with literature. The articles are as follows: "Making Connections through Literature" (C. J. Nolan, Jr.); "Developing the Social Conscience through Literature" (P. Smagorinsky); "Connecting with Literature: Activities for 'The Cay' and 'The Bedspread'" (V. L. Olson); "Using Journals and Small Groups to Explore Literature" (J. S. Mink); "Poetry to Engage the Person" (N. Gorrell); "'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening': A Classroom Experiment in Literary Response" (M. A. Delia); "Making Sense of Poetry through Constructing, Collaborating, and Imitating" (J. Golub); "Literature on the Screen: Film Adaptations in the Classroom" (P. S. Gardner); "The Dinner Party: How to Breathe Life into Literature" (C. C. Livingston); "Portraying and Interpreting Literature through Art" (J. Hamilton); "The Sophocles Connection" (M. Cobb); "Drama as a Way into Poetry" (E. Komar); "Moral Dilemmas and 'Death of a Salesman'" (E. K. Barron and D. N. Sosland); "The Reader's Work: Learning through Enactment" (R. Jenseth); "Ambiguous Texts in Teaching the Reading of Literature" (M. B. Mandel); "Students and Literature: Intimate Friends" (M. H. A. Morrissey); "Engaging Students with Literature" (R. A. Grusko); "A Marriage of Form and Content: Teaching 'Twelve Angry Men'" (K. Hogarty); "Using Junior High Readers' Poetry Preferences in the Classroom" (K. Kutiper and R. F. Abrahamson); "Deconstructing the Multiple-Choice Test" (T. McKendy); "Cowboys, Cowgirls, and Literary Criticism" (A. Sherrill); "Listening: An Invitation to Literacy" (W. R. Clark); "Action Books as Story Retelling Prompts" (G. Bohning); "Writing Poetry in Response to Literature" (P. B. Turk); "Style from the Inside Out" (P. P. Kelly); "Creating Text: Students Connecting with Literature" (L. Christenbury); "Helping Students Discover Their Private Texts" (L. Perkins); and "An Approach to Critical Writing: Begin with Contradictions" (J. Bean-Thompson). (SR)

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